How to Make Fabric Folders – Crafty Gemini
There are millions of yummy recipes all over the internet with more being added to blogs and websites on a daily basis. Well, I don’t know about you but I can’t keep up with them in just a digital format. I need hard copies so I can take notes on what ingredients I’ve substituted, measurements […]
Finalists For The 2020 National Book Awards | Penguin Random House
Congratulations to our winners of the National Book Awards! We're proud to announce that Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri, translated by Morgan Giles, is the winner in the Translated Literature category and...
10 Ways to RUIN Kids First Day Back to School
Get ready for a good laugh reading through these 10 ways to RUIN Kids First Day Back to School.
Yosemite for Kids: A Five-Day Itinerary
You may be enthralled by Yosemite’s scenery—waterfalls leaping thousands of feet over granite cliffs, giant sequoias as wide as your living room, delicate wildflowers painting grassy meadows with a…
Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein : Based on a True Story (Hardcover)
At the start of 1991, eleven-year-old Ali Fadhil was consumed by his love for soccer, video games, and American television shows. Then, on January 17, Iraq's dictator Saddam Hussein went to war with thirty-four nations led by the United States. Over the next forty-three days, Ali and his family survived bombings, food shortages, and constant fear. Ali and his brothers played soccer on the abandoned streets of their Basra neighborhood, wondering when or if their medic father would return from the war front. Cinematic, accessible, and timely, this is the story of one ordinary kid's view of life during war.
The Heaviness of Things that Floats
Jennifer Manuel skilfully depicts the lonely world of Bernadette, a woman who has spent the last forty years living alone on the periphery of a remote West Coast First Nations reserve, serving as a nurse for the community. This is a place where truth and myth are deeply intertwined and stories are “like organisms all their own, life upon life, the way moss grows around poplar trunks and barnacles atop crab shells, the way golden chanterelles spring from hemlock needles. They spread in the cove with the kelp and the eelgrass, and in the rainforest with the lichen, the cedars,…
